afppasswd

afppasswd(1) Netatalk afppasswd(1)

NAME

afppasswd - netatalk password maintenance utility

SYNOPSIS

afppasswd [-acfn] [ -p passwdfile ] [ -u minimumuid ]

DESCRIPTION

afppasswd allows the maintenance of afppasswd files created by netatalk
for use by the uams_randnum.so UAM (providing the "Randnum exchange"
and "2-Way Randnum exchange" User Authentication Modules).
afppasswd can either be called by root with parameters, or can be
called by local system users with no parameters to change their AFP
passwords.
Note
With this utility you can only change the passwords used by two
specific UAMs. As they provide only weak password encryption,
the use of the "Randnum exchange" and "2-Way Randnum exchange"
UAMs is deprecated unless one has to support very old AFP
clients, that can not deal with the more secure "DHCAST128" UAM
instead. Please compare with the [Cross reference to non-exis-
tant ID “authentication”] inside Netatalk’s documentation.

EXAMPLE

OPTIONS

-a Add a new user to the afppasswd file.
-c Create and/or initialize afppasswd file or specific user.
-f Force the current action.
-ppath
Path to afppasswd file.
-n If cracklib support is built into netatalk this option will
cause cracklib checking to be disabled, if the superuser does
not want to have the password run against the cracklib dictio-
nary.
-uminimumuid
This is the minimum userid (uid) that afppasswd will use when
creating users.